We are very pleased to publish this case study: Univa Helps Mellanox Technologies Extend Silicon Design HPC Cluster to Hybrid Cloud Mellanox is a well-known name in the technology circles and has been racking up awards, including CEO and President…

Carving out a niche in the rapidly evolving arena of AI (Artificial Intelligence) isn’t easy – especially for an organization that doesn’t have first-mover advantage. With a clear mandate from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)…

The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by American cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955 as part of his proposal for the Dartmouth Conference in 1956; the first AI conference. McCarthy, known as the “father of artificial intelligence”, developed the programming…

Recently, the industry has reached a tipping point as evidenced in our recent customer survey that showed a marked increase in the interest and use of HPC cloud. This openness is fueled in part by new applications (like distributed TensorFlow) that are…

A few years ago, while at one of the SuperComputing shows, I met with several industry analysts and tenured product people with HPC providers. We talked about the software stack and tools deployed in the enterprise to manage and monitor…

This Lab covers the steps to install and configure a Univa Grid Engine cluster in Amazon AWS using the Tortuga framework. Prerequisite: You will need to have Amazon AWS credentials and have completed some basic configurations like VPC network and…

Introduction TensorFlow (TF) is a hot topic in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The software library was developed by the Google Brain team within Google’s AI org. The tensorflow.org site describes TensorFlow as, “an open source software library…

New white paper It’s been over a decade since the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006 and nearly a decade since Univa sponsored the first Grid Engine cluster in AWS. Since this time, HPC executives and IT professionals…

Navops Command is proudly sporting a new logo on its virtual lapel: Certified Kubernetes™. Recognizing Kubernetes as one of the highest-velocity software projects in the history of open source, the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program ensures consistency and portability on an…

On March 15, 2018, Univa announced the open sourcing of project Tortuga under the Apache 2.0 license to help accelerate the migration of enterprise HPC workloads to the cloud. Tortuga is a general-purpose cluster and cloud management framework with applicability…